Best Reads of 2021

Here are my best reads in English during 2021. The total was 69 books, which is a lot for me. This was mainly because in April I sorted my Goodreads reading queue on page count and then mostly read the shortest books on the list for the rest of the year. 67% of the total were e-books, an all-time high.

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• Castle Hangnail. Ursula Vernon 2015.
• The Fall of the House of Cabal. Jonathan L. Howard 2016.
• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Jon Ronson 2015.
• Doctor No (James Bond #6). Ian Fleming 1958.
• First 1/5 of Arthur C. Clarke, Collected stories, 1937-50.
• Collected Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham #3.
• The Wild Girls. Ursula K. Le Guin 2002-11.
• Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut 1969.
• The Stone Book Quartet. Alan Garner 1979.
• The Justice Trade (Ashen Stars RPG). Leonard Balsera et al. 2013.
• Swords of the Serpentine RPG. Kevin Kulp & Emily Dresner 2020.
• Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast. Kenneth Hite 2000.
• Nobody’s Fool. Richard Russo 1993.
• Project Hail Mary. Andy Weir 2021.
• Time and the Gods. Lord Dunsany 1906.
• Spoon River Anthology. Edgar Lee Masters 1915.
• The Palm-Wine Drinkard. Amos Tutuola 1952.
• Switch Bitch. Roald Dahl 1974.
• Bronze Age Lives. Anthony Harding 2021.
• Deep Secret (Magids #1). Diana Wynne Jones 1997.
• The Pirate. Frederick Maryatt 1836.
• More Walls Broken. Tim Powers 2019.
• Murder Me For Nickels. Peter Rabe 1960.
• Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970. Richard Brautigan.
• Wylding Hall. Elizabeth Hand 2015.
• Boy: Tales of Childhood. Roald Dahl 1984.
• An African Millionaire. Grant Allen 1897.
• The Seedling Stars. James Blish 1956.
• The Erotic Traveller. R.F. Burton 1969.
• Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft. S.T. Joshi 2003.
• Emphyrio. Jack Vance 1969.
• A Morbid Taste for Bones. Ellis Peters 1977.
• A Scanner Darkly. P.K. Dick 1977.
• Rogues and Rascals in English History. Neville Williams 1959.
• My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places. Mary Roach 2013.
• Changing Places. David Lodge 1975.
• The Perfumed Garden. Umar Ibn Muhammed Al-Nefzawi, 15th c.
• Werewolves in Their Youth. Michael Chabon 1999.
• The House of the Seven Gables. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851.
• The Samurai. Stephen Turnbull 2016.
• The Wild Shore. Kim Stanley Robinson 1984.
• Ice Station Zebra. Alistair MacLean 1963.
• Minnow on the Say. Philippa Pearce 1955.
• 50 Years of Text Games. Aaron A. Reed 2021.

Here’s my list for 2020.

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